Chris Ambler,where are you?Of course ICANN are aware of the International community of internet users in their choice of new TLDS:Why, they chose a foreign language extension,pity it's not a language spoken out of a small province of Spain,the principality of Andora and a sliver of France.But,you know,it's foreign,small enough and,therefore,we'll give it the nod.

The real agenda of the.MOBI.MOB is to developthe Single-Letter-TLDs (and the Single-Digit-TLDs).Mobile users do not want to type a lot.Also, the.MOB wants walled-garden TLDs.

As you saw with the other ICANN TLDs, once theTLD contract is signed, it is changed to "sellto the market". Remember ?.PRO was going tosell third-level names. The rules get changedonce the oath to ICANN is taken.

"An old proposal was to allow any address extension into ICANN's root and then have the end user,the consumer,decide which TLD was most useful...a survival of the fittest."

"ICANN's root" is not needed or used in modernsystems. If you look closely at a CISCO/Linksyswireless access-point router you will see thatit runs Linux and DNSMASQ (Not Bind). DNSMASQgoes directly to the TLD servers. There is noneed for a "root". Also, the user can selectwhich TLDs to access. It is like choosing thechannels for a cable TV service. ISPs cancharge an extra monthly fee to access the.HBOTLD or the.XXX TLD.

The new DNS software, in a consumer's router,is capable of seeing a request for a new TLDand "finding" the TLD by asking OTHER TLDSERVERS, not root servers. As an example, onecan ask the.COM servers if they know wherethe.NET servers are located. Verisign canmake sure the answer is their.NET servers.Even if the out-dated root servers were changedit would not change the way many devices findthe.NET TLD servers.

BIND is no longer as widely used. ICANN'sbusiness plan is built solely on the controlof the BIND technology. That has been replaced.